How about those entries rejected by Tomorrow? Where do we post those?
http://www.todayonline.com. Email editor@todayonline.com

Today hasn't got business ah?

Erm.. I might be a little slow here... but... what's the purpose of mailing the ST Forum letters to sgtforum@gmail.com since, I am assuming that, it is only going to be reproduced in an electronic form at blogspot?

The intended audience/organization/body will still not be able to read your messages anyway, unless you are harping on the fact that you will eventually reach a critical mass such that you start to gain attention.

I am not skeptical, but perhaps an organizational objective started at the main page (of http://straighttimesforum.blogspot.com/) would do some good. At the end of the day, I am still not sure of what the objective of the site is all about.

Peace.

I think the objective is to provide a platform for especially non-bloggers to share their unpublished thoughts with the rest of us.

From the description, I think the authors would like to feature well-written letters that were rejected from ST Forum/other places due to censorship. They are not requesting for letters that have been published.

I think this have been done before - Sintercom when it existed years back had a segment that is named "Not the Straits Times". Other than featuring replies in ST forum exchanges where the paper awarded the final word to the authorities; it also featured various unpublished submissions as well as an archive of letters by prominent critics like Francis Chong back then.

My sense was that the critical mass at that time was not quite there, and that the website does not quite do the job of reaching out to the general public. It would be very difficult to have any discernable impact without any significant mass or reach.

I think this is a better platform because it is dedicated wholely to letters rejected by ST forum. Since the writers are independents, they are more balanced and credible. We can also judge for ourselves whether it is really true that ST only picks pro-PAP letters and reject unfavorable ones.

It is a good idea and we should spread the word for them. At least, ST will think twice about rejecting letters.

I say, don't waste your time. In the beginning, a few of mine were published, and I actually felt encouraged. But the last two or three I wrote never saw the light. Then it hit - why waste my bloody time?

If nobody writes to them, they will have nothing to publish!

Hey, send your unpublished letters to this online Straight Times forum. You were referring to the Straits Times forum right? The Straight Times forum is looking for letters like yours. Then we can see what kind of letters are rejected by them.

I tell you, even if no one writes to Straits Times forum, they will have ghost letters heaping praises on the PAP.

I agree - send in your letters to Straight Times Forum then.. Would really love to see the kind of letters they reject. Since yours have been accepted b4, means should have some standard. Here's a platform for you to highlight the issues that straits times refused to publish (for one reason or another).

*wink*

:D

You know, the whole idea about blogging is so that you can publish your own thoughts and rejected letters on YOUR OWN blog.

If your thoughts are worth reading, someone will pick it up, and your thoughts will surface. :)

So I encourage readers to post your letters on your own blogs. List your blogs at http://harro.com so people can find you.

Submit your blog entry to tomorrow.sg ... etc..

Cheers.

No business ah?

Of course you can also submit to the Straight times too..... or submit the blog post link to Straight times?

It's still the editor's prerogative to publish letters/articles written by its readers. It also depends on how much content they can publish within a day. It's not an easy job to balance everything they put out in the public. On top of that, they got also some advertising issues to contend.

Carl

Thank you so much!!!At least the non bloggers have been given a thought.